Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Eldridge v. City of Greenwood (1998), King County v. Rasmussen (2002)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 1174 · 43 U.S.C. § 912 · 43 U.S.C. § 934 · 45 U.S.C. § 903 · 45 U.S.C. § 904
Relies on Markham v. Cabell · Spencer Gifts, Inc. v. Olitsky · 111 S. Ct. 425 - Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania v. Ben Cooper, Inc. · Pickens v. Lockheed Corp. · Ames v. Sundance State Bank
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the deed conveyed a strip of land, and did not contain additional language relating to the use or purpose to which the land was to be put, or in other ways limiting the estate conveyed; (2) whether the deed conveyed a strip of land and limited its use to a specific purpose; (3) whether the deed conveyed a right of way over a tract of land, rather than a strip thereof; (4) whether the deed granted only the privilege of constructing, operating, or maintaining a railroad over the land; (5) whether the deed contained a clause providing that if the railroad ceased to operate, the land conveyed would revert to the grantor; (6) whether the consideration expressed was substantial or nominal; and (7) whether the conveyance did or did not contain a habendum clause, and many other considerations suggested by the language of the particular deed.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“conveys and warrants unto Bellingham and Northern Railway Company ... for all railroad and other right of way purposes, certain tracts and parcels of land....”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“in considerable disarray and usually turn on a case-by-case examination of each deed”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.